Inclusive Placemaking Inspirational Cookbook | Reshaping our cities for all
The Inclusive Placemaking Inspirational Cookbook, created by the Inclusive City project, offers a practical toolkit for designing more inclusive public spaces. Process guided by Milagros Hurtig and co-curated with the consortium partners across Europe, it brings together real stories, actionable strategies, and reflective exercises to help urban planners, designers, and community leaders address exclusion in […]
Guidelines on Behavioural Change
We created a visually attractive and practical guideline that supports policymakers in every step of the intervention process. As the basis we used the Behaviour Change Wheel (Atkins and West). This provides a scientific basis for behaviour change processes. It brings together 19 existing models, and provides both insight at a strategic level and practical […]
Handbook Public-Civic Collaboration (English Summary)
The knowledge and tools shared in this handbook are lessons learned from the research project that Stby and Waag FutureLab did together. This handbook provides a set of key lessons and a selection of 15 tools that are especially useful for people who are seeking inspiring ways to learn to improve public civic collaborations.
Handbook Public-Civic Collaboration (Dutch version)
The knowledge and tools shared in this handbook are lessons learned from the research project that Stby and Waag FutureLab did together. This handbook provides a set of key lessons and a selection of 15 tools that are especially useful for people who are seeking inspiring ways to learn to improve public civic collaborations.
Getting Started with Policy Co-design
The ideas and tools shared in this playbook build on a growing interest in policy co-design that has emerged over the last twenty years, driven by collaboration between designers and policymakers, a shift to more citizen-centred approaches to policy-making, and the opportunities for collaborative policy co-design opened up by new digital technologies. Throughout this playbook […]
Park[ing] Day for Fitness
This tool was inspired by the Parking Day concept by Rebar of taking over a parking spot for your own human-scale and community use. The mission of the Park(ing) Day for Fitness events is to draw attention to the many (untapped) possibilities that our cities offer for physical activity, the need for more open spaces […]
Wishfinding
Lead the way to user’s future visions with a ‘wishfinding’ signpost! Many placemaking projects start with the question: what are people missing in this neighborhood? Wishfinding (in Dutch: bewenswijzering) is a simple and creative way to ask local stakeholders about their ideas, making their wishes directly visible. This tool guides you through setting up an […]
Valuing the community as an expert in the built environment revitalisation process
Jacqueline Bleicher states that the community you’re working with knows best what’s not working and how to fix it. “Often their ideas are better, more salient, comprehensive and viable than some of the ideas being imposed upon them.”In this chapter of Our City she gives the reader tactics and insights on how to work with […]
Urban Camping
This manual will serve as a guide for people who are looking for participatory observation methods. The manual will look into details of urban camping: camping in a caravan on a square (or another urban space) to converse with users of the square and experience the place and it’s daily rhythm by being present. This […]
Time Machine Manual
Our urban environment could be seen as the illustration of a book: it helps to explain all the stories and experiences of the past, shaped by its different users through time.The Time Machine can be used as a tool for places with an (expected) redevelopment task with a desire for a connection between the past […]
